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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:24 am

As with the corresponding topic in the Collecting General forum, use this topic to post interesting non-TSR items you've spotted on eBay.

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:11 pm

eBay listings

Seller has several fanzines for sale

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:15 pm

WD1 -pricey though

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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:17 pm

Pricey is right! Or maybe crazy would be more on mark. Still, he has a bid.

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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:23 am

International Wargamer Vol 3 No 5 May 1970 with 2 articles by Gygax

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International Wargamer Vol 3 No 6 June 1970 with 3 articles by Gygax

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Both are listed under magazine back issues.

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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:35 pm

Grubbiv with more amazing things: White Bear and Red Moon:

http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Bear-and-Red- ... dZViewItem

Okay, now he's just toying with my mind. His things look completely untouched. And he keeps listing more!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nomad-Gods-Chaosium ... dZViewItem

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe...we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:42 pm

PaulKM wrote:Grubbiv with more amazing things: White Bear and Red Moon:

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Okay, now he's just toying with my mind. His things look completely untouched. And he keeps listing more!

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He also has a signed 1st edition Hemingway. Reasonably that should bring at least $1000 but who knows what the ebay marketplace is like.

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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:42 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:
He also has a signed 1st edition Hemingway. Reasonably that should bring at least $1000 but who knows what the ebay marketplace is like.

Several times that I hope. One of the granddaughters, not Margaux or Mariel, I think Lorian was her name, used to attend a bookclub in a house I lived in. Invitations were extended but I could never be bothered to read the book of the week. How lame is that.

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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:30 pm

The backstory on the Hemingway is maybe interesting so I will tell it. Nine years ago I was at Amazon and Bezos came and told us we had to build an auction site or Ebay would wipe us off the map. We built it and there were a bunch of collectibles that were acquired and auctioned to try to get the thing rolling. I recall some of Einstein's personal papers. Bezos himself bid for and won a cave bear skeleton which got put in the hallway of the building on Beacon Hill. I used some of the internet money I was flush with to pick up the Hemingway.

Maybe it was a bad thing that employees were bidding on the auctions. We never got any of Ebay's market share of auctions. The whole effort looked to be a loss, but it wasn't too hard to tweak the code to allow fixed price selling, and when we allowed sellers to list their items side-by-side with Amazon products, the 3rd party sales became a major profit center for the company. Yay us.

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:19 pm

That signed Ltd Ed. Cthulhu rule-set we were discussing in the old incarnation of this thread... it went for $571 in the end.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0243926196

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:56 pm

red_bus wrote:That signed Ltd Ed. Cthulhu rule-set we were discussing in the old incarnation of this thread... it went for $571 in the end.

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Jeez Bracton, going to save anything for Gencon? :wink:

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:12 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:Jeez Bracton, going to save anything for Gencon?

My wife's out of town, on a "girls' weekend" away. I always believe in using chits when you earn them. :lol:

Course, we'll see what the balance of payments looks like after this weekend. But I may just decide to go into debt this time . . . . GenCon is only once a year, fortunately.

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:31 pm

red_bus wrote:That signed Ltd Ed. Cthulhu rule-set we were discussing in the old incarnation of this thread... it went for $571 in the end.

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That's the third in a year to top $500.

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:39 pm

Some more nice Cthulhu boxes including a 1E (missing world map)

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:42 pm

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana 1st Ed

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:12 pm

That is a great reference book - for gaming and also for general interest.

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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:33 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=016

Tombs of Valla went for $399 to lofenloc. I was a bidder, but wasn't in the ballpark, obviously. Sigh.

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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:05 pm

Bracton wrote:
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Tombs of Valla went for $399 to lofenloc. I was a bidder, but wasn't in the ballpark, obviously. Sigh.

Christ almighty! That has to be some kind of record for Tombs of Valla.

I would love to see the total amount of lofenloc's yearly Ebay expenditures. He probably spends more on Ebay in one year than I make at my job in the same amount of time. :roll:

Hey Al, you should try and see if TFM will buy yours for his high bid. That would be a pretty nice bit of change in your pocket considering you got it for what....twenty bucks? :lol:

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